2021
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2108.01489
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Parametric co-linear axion photon instability

Abstract: Axions and axion-like particles generically couple to QED via the axion-photon-photon interaction. This leads to a modification of Maxwell's equations known in the literature as axionelectrodynamics. The new form of Maxwell's equations gives rise to a new parametric instability in which a strong pump decays into a scattered light wave and an axion. This axion mode grows exponentially in time and leads to a change in the polarisation of the initial laser beam, therefore providing a signal for detection. Current… Show more

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“…When colliding two intense pump laser pulses orthogonally, with frequencies ω 1 = 2ω 2 , a probe of the overlap can experience frequency up/down shifts at resonant axion masses [1063]. The diphoton coupling is also predicted to lead to parametric instabilities in the propagation of an intense laser pulse [1064] and a flux of ALPs being generated by a laser-driven plasma wakefield propagating along a constant strong magnetic field [1065]. The change in an x-ray beam (produced by a free electron laser) as it probes the quasi-static fields in hollow plasma structures, formed by colliding an intense laser pulse with a low-density target, has also been suggested as a probe of ALPs [1066].…”
Section: Beyond the Standard Modelmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…When colliding two intense pump laser pulses orthogonally, with frequencies ω 1 = 2ω 2 , a probe of the overlap can experience frequency up/down shifts at resonant axion masses [1063]. The diphoton coupling is also predicted to lead to parametric instabilities in the propagation of an intense laser pulse [1064] and a flux of ALPs being generated by a laser-driven plasma wakefield propagating along a constant strong magnetic field [1065]. The change in an x-ray beam (produced by a free electron laser) as it probes the quasi-static fields in hollow plasma structures, formed by colliding an intense laser pulse with a low-density target, has also been suggested as a probe of ALPs [1066].…”
Section: Beyond the Standard Modelmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…When colliding two intense pump laser pulses orthogonally, with frequencies ω 1 = 2ω 2 , a probe of the overlap can experience frequency up/down shifts at resonant axion masses [1082]. The diphoton coupling is also predicted to lead to parametric instabilities in the propagation of an intense laser pulse [1083] and a flux of ALPs being generated by a laser-driven plasma wakefield propagating along a constant strong magnetic field [1084]. The change in an x-ray beam (produced by a free electron laser) as it probes the quasi-static fields in hollow plasma structures, formed by colliding an intense laser pulse with a low-density target, has also been suggested as a probe of ALPs [1085].…”
Section: Beyond the Standard Modelmentioning
confidence: 99%